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The beautiful walnut-wood house stood half finished, and the great convolvulus had crept over its four walls. Michael never set foot in it. The only thing that kept up his half-recovered strength and his broken spirit was Noémi's love. One bud after another opened on the rose-tree. Timar did nothing but watch the development and blossoming of these rosebuds.
Little thing, about nine lot of hair, the same color as mine, and brown eyes. White and yellow sash. Had a necklace on of real pearls I gave her. I BOUGHT THEM, you understand, myself at Tucker's gave two hundred and fifty dollars for them and a big bouquet of white rosebuds and lilacs I sent her." "I remember her now on the platform," said the Mayor gravely. "So that is your child?"
If they could not teach the white men their practical stoicism, they at least made them acquainted with the edible properties of roots and wild rosebuds, and furnished them a supply from their own store.
She held a crook massed with ribbons and rosebuds in her hand, rallying the men to her standard by the lively chatter which they like better than wisdom. Mademoiselle Annabel gave me her hand to kiss, and made room for the Marquis du Plessy and me in her circle.
"Yes, they are of a variety found only on this island, I am told. You may keep them if you like." "I presume, Mr. Arlington," said Burr, "that you understand the language of flowers. When I was of the sentimental age I knew the floral alphabet and could convey all manner of covert messages through the agency of pinks and pansies and rosebuds and all the sweet go-betweens of Cupid's court.
James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind junior, as the injured men of Coketown threatened to pitch their property into the Atlantic. But he preserved his easy attitude; and nothing more solid went over the stone balustrades than the accumulated rosebuds now floating about, a little surface-island. 'My dear Tom, said Harthouse, 'let me try to be your banker.
He did it without any seeming care or unusual caution. But then he was consummate in the necessary craft which is to be found only amongst the sons of the soil, and, even then, rarely outside the few who have been associated with Indians all their lives. It was soon after sunrise on Monday morning that Seth found himself in the neighborhood of the principal Indian camp of the Rosebuds.
Through the parted curtains she saw a dazzling figure which was standing in the middle of the living room, surrounded by a group of admiring girls. It was Evelyn, looking like some wonderful fairy vision in a gown of apricot satin and chiffon, embroidered with exquisite little sprays of tiny rosebuds.
I wonder what she will say when she sees a certain pink parasol that I saw in that box, and a white sash with pink rosebuds on it, and slippers that I'm sure wouldn't fit anything else in the house but her own wigglesome little feet." Mary's hands came together ecstatically, with a long-drawn "Oh!"
Young Indian girls, with garlands of various-colored poppies about their necks, like the natives of Hawaii, offered us for a trifle tiny bouquets made of rosebuds, pansies, violets, tube-roses, and scarlet geraniums, all grown close at hand on these misnamed floating islands.
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